Voting Quotes - Page 12

• We know we only have about half of our population that's voting.

  Dolores Huerta

  Population, Half, Knows

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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• Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to.

  Germaine Greer

  Mean, Giving, Vote

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.138, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Anyone who opposes methods to control the birth rate, is automatically voting in favour having the death rate go up.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Birth Rate, Favour, Method

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• You aren't just voting for the president. So many issues that affect your everyday life are decided locally on that ballot as well. So go get that god damn sticker. Your country needs you.

  Chrissy Teigen

  Country, Issues, Everyday

  "Chrissy Teigen Thinks Ivanka Trump 'Should Probably Run for Office One Day'". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. September 8, 2016.

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• I wish there were somebody I could be comfortable voting for. I might have to vote for Hillary Clinton, even though I have big reservations about her.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Wish, Might, Vote

  "Bush Advisor Wolfowitz Says He'll Likely Vote for Clinton". Interview with Gordon Repinski, www.spiegel.de. August 26, 2016.

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• We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Honesty, Truth, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1901). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”

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• Not for nothing that [Donald] Trump, who himself has had some high unfavorable ratings, distrusted by a significant amount of the population and even a significant amount of the Republican voting electorate is more trusted than the media right now.

  Donald Trump

  Media, Population, Republican

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I've kind of come to a place to where I don't really condemn anyone for what their conscience tells them to do because I'm not happy with my choice that I'm making personally on, you know, not voting for somebody that I think can win.

  Glenn Beck

  Thinking, Winning, Choices

  "Glenn Beck Speaks At Conservative Blog 'RedState' Gathering". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. August 13, 2016.

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• Donald Trump is going to win. Donald Trump is going to win because in the end, the country is not going to reward big banks and big unions and big bureaucracies and big donors and big corruption by voting for a big liar.

  Newt Gingrich

  Country, Liars, Winning

  "Newt Gingrich Predicts: "Keep This Tape... Donald Trump Is Going To Win"". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 19, 2016.

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• It's almost like my career has been [based on voting]. I won a dancing contest to get into wrestling. That involved fans voting. And then on Dancing with the Stars, fans were voting.

  Stacy Keibler

  Stars, Wrestling, Careers

  "Stacy Keibler May or May Not Be Taking Photoshop Steroids". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. April 23, 2010.

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• As far as [Bernie] Sanders is concerned, he's probably the most honest of all of them. But we have to be careful, because this is the most important election [2016] in the history of this country; because you're not just voting for a president, you're voting for the person who can take America totally down! America will never be great as she once was, again, but she can survive if she does the right thing.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Country, America, Important

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Communism is a form of government under which every citizen at election time enjoys the privilege of voting Yes.

  Evan Esar

  Government, Citizens, Privilege

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• I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.

  P. D. James

  Stupid, Slavery, May

  P. D. James (2008). “A Taste for Death”, p.326, Faber & Faber

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• An American presidential campaign resembles a forced march through enemy country.

  Bill Vaughan

  Country, Presidential, Enemy

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• All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.

  Doris Lessing

  Party, Reality, People

  "A Notorious Life". Interview with Dwight Garner, www.salon.com. November 11, 1997.

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• I don't think that there's substantiated evidence that shows that voter fraud is such a rampant problem that we have to put in place measures that people have to pass in order to exercise that constitutional free right. Voting should be -- and is required to be -- a right that is unencumbered. That does not have tests that people must pass.... Anything put in place to restrict that right, or to make it more difficult for people to exercise it, should be outlawed, and should not be allowed.

  Clay Aiken

  Exercise, Thinking, Order

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• Voting is not only our right, it is our power. When we vote, we take back our power to choose, to speak up, and to stand with those who support us and each other.

  Loung Ung

  Support, Vote, Speak

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• The caucus is a sort of representative meeting which sits voting and voting till they have cut out all the known men against whom much is to be said, and agreed on some unknown man against whom there is nothing known, and therefore nothing to be alleged.

  Walter Bagehot

  Cutting, Men, Said

  Walter Bagehot (1930). “The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays”, p.109, Lulu.com

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• Men and women in my lifetime have died fighting for the right to vote: people like James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered while registering black voters in Mississippi in 1964, and Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1965 during the Selma march for voting rights.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Fighting, Men, Rights

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• All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Character, Thinking, Majority

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections.

  William Gibson

  Running, Baby, Eye

  William Gibson (2003). “Idoru”, p.32, Penguin

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• The Conservative Party have got to ask themselves, 'How do we persuade people who at the moment are voting Labour and Liberal Democrat to vote Conservative

  Kenneth Clarke

  Party, People, Conservative

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• I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting . . . it was the start of a new Arab world.. The Berlin Wall has fallen.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Wall, Iraq, People

  "Arnold An 'Arrogant Patriarch'?". www.foxnews.com. April 05, 2012.

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• I know how important voting and elections are. But everybody know that life is going to be life regardless of who is president.

  Lil Wayne

  Important, President, Election

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• Our old - fashioned system is better than any new - fangled voting machine. Not only is it guaranteed to work, but there is something I find appealing in putting a mark on a piece of paper for the candidate of your choice, as opposed to pulling a lever as if you were gambling on a slot machine in Las Vegas.

  Jean Chretien

  Vegas, Gambling, Choices

  Jean Chretien (2010). “My Years as Prime Minister”, p.287, Vintage Canada

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